The population increases throughout the
world at the time of Expo's opening is estimated to be more than two
persons per second.

The population of Man in his World will increase by
some 34,600,000 during Expo 67's run of six months. This is almost
15,000,000 more than Canada's present total population.

The pavilion, Man the Provider, relates Expo's overall
theme to the role of agriculture, to what Man has done and is doing
towards providing the food which a rapidly expanding world population
needs to establish adequate living standards for all mankind.

The measure of Man's achievement will be reflected in
plenty - or in widespread starvation and misery.

This important Theme Pavilion is on Ile Notre-Dame
with transport connection by Minirail. It emphasizes the tremendous
challenge to Man to bring about balance between increasing population and
food requirements by increasing agricultural production.

In the beginning, Man the Provider spent most of his
time hunting and gathering food. Then, gradually through the centuries, he
learned how to domesticate plants and animals. Thus civilization itself
was born, for Man was placed in the position where he could produce not
only for his own requirements, but provide sufficient surplus to exchange
for other articles and services produced by his neighbors.

Thence came trade, and specialization, and industry.
Thus agriculture itself became an industry, since products of the soil had
to be harvested, transported, processed, packaged, and
merchandised.

The story of Man the Provider is brought up-to-date
for Expo 67 as scientists, engineers, and economists join the farmer in a
project of immense potential. The scope of the challenge can be seen from
the fact that today at least 300,000,000 people - and possibly as many as
500,000,000 - do not get sufficient food or receive an unbalanced diet.
The ultimate challenge is to abolish hunger and malnutrition.

Soil fertility, the basic life cycle, insect control,
selective breeding, mechanization and automation, are some of the aspects
of the story - with a look towards the agriculture of the future when one
man in a control tower could feasibly exercise direct control over a
variety of machines functioning over a considerable area.

On entering the eight-acre site of the pavilion, the
visitor sees nine buildings circling an area of land called
Sun-Acre.

The walls of the buildings are huge mounds of earth
covered with grass, 30 feet high at the rear of the buildings and
sloping inwards towards the centre of the Sun-Acre.

Exhibits on the Sun-Acre symbolize Man's striving for
increasing productivity on the farm by measuring yields on a standard
area.

Live animals are used to show a complete dairy in
operation and progress in animal breeding. The poultry section features a
completely automatic egg-laying plant and a production line of broiler
chickens.